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          Belgian painter, sculptor, draughtsman and printmaker.!

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          (Mechelen, 1882 - Amsterdam, 1916)

          Belgian painter, sculptor, draughtsman and printmaker.

          From early age on Rik Wouters worked as an apprentice in the studio of his father, an ornamental sculptor.

          In his workshop he created wooden figures and decorations for furniture. At only fifteen years old he entered the Akademie van Schone Kunsten in Mechelen to study sculpture.

          In 1900 he decided to move to the Belgian capital where he became a pupil of Charles Van der Stappen at the Academie des Beaux-Arts.

          There he met Hélène Duerinckx (Nel) who was to become his wife, favourite model and muse.

          The poverty of the young couple and the sickness of Nel forced them to leave the city centre and to go to Boitsfort, the green outskirts of Brussels.

          Wouters' early paintings were primarily of interiors and stillifes, painted with a palette and showing an abundant use of colour laid down on cardboard.

          In 1911 Wouters changed his style, aband